Alan Ball Quotes

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

Alan Ball

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • She
  • You
  • Feeling

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Knowledge
  • Notes
  • Concert

• If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Political
  • Care
  • Judge

• The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Find

• Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Think
  • Humor

• I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • You
  • Tomorrow
  • I Can

• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Players

• My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Home
  • House
  • Design

• People have a good time with all the catch phrases.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I think what's most important is family.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • Family
  • Think

• Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Day
  • Person
  • Alive

• I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Camera

• Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • Important
  • Writing

• If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Focus
  • Trouble
  • Realizing

• The Middle East is not part of the world that plays by Las Vegas rules: What happens in the Middle East is not going to stay in the Middle East.

  

  David Petraeus
  • World
  • Vegas

• I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Edges
  • Dusty

• Now it feels like no one ever left me out in the rain, cold words still remain unspoken.And I never got lost, spent years in the dark.You're here, now my heart's unbroken.When I see you smile, fill my soul again, and I'm unbroken.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore

• Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

  

  Alan Ball